Window-shade bracket.



T. G. FOLEY & J. G. GARDINER.

WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.2,1913.

1,101,918. Patented June 30,1914.

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TIMOTHY C. FOLEY AND JOHN G. GARDINER, OF RENOVO, PENNSYLVANIA.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, TIMOTHY C. FOLEY and JOHN C. GARDINER, citizens of the United States, residing at Renovo, in the county of Clinton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in window shade brackets.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of window shade brackets, and to provide a simple and 111- expensive device of strong and compact const-ruction, capable of a wide range of ad: justment to accommodate window shades of diiferent widths, and adapted also to enable the latter to be mounted either at the top or bottom of a window.

A further object of the invention is to provide a window shade bracket of this character adapted to be adjusted by simply loosening the screws for securing it to a window frame and reversible to permit an increased range of adjustment without changing the position of the screws and constructed to expose the latter when the window shade bracket is in either position.

lVith these and other objects in view, the

1 invention consists in the construct-ion and out departing from the spirit or sacrificing,

any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of a window, showing a curtain shade supported by brackets, constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, the brackets being reversed. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a portion of one side of the window frame, showing one of the window shade brackets and illustrating the manner of placing the same on and removing the Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view of the window Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 2, 1913.

I Patented June 30, 1914.

Serial No. 804,216.

shade bracket, shown'in Figs. 1 to--3 inclusive. Fig. 5 is a similar view, showing another form of the invention.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing. I

In the accompan ing drawing in which is illustrated the pre erred embodiment of the invention, 1 designates a window shade bracket designed to be stamped or otherwise formed from a single piece of sheet metal, but the window shade bracket may be constructed of any other suitable material. The bracket 1 comprises a base plate 2 and a supporting arm 3 extending outwardly from the base plate and provided with an opening 1 for the reception of one of the journals of the roller 5 of a window shade 6. The window shade 6 is designed to j be equipped with an ordinary spring roller and the opening of one of the window shade brackets will be oblong to conform-to the configuration of the journal, which is connected with the spring of the roller. As the supporting arms are provided withopenings for the journals of the shade roller, the brackets may be mounted at either the top or the bottom of a window frame 7 and may be reversed without permitting the shade roller to drop out of the openings or bearings of the supporting arms.

The base plate 2 is provided with a horizontal adjusting slot 8 for the reception of spaced attaching screws 9, and it has a vertical entrance slot 10 formed in an extension 11 and of a width to permit the heads of the screws'to be passed through it, whereby the window shade bracket may be engaged with and disengaged from the screws without removing the latter from the window screws with its normal vertical entrance slot in a horizontal position, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing, and from this position the window shade bracket may be partially rotated in either direction to carry it to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing, or to the position illustrated full lines in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

The screws passing successively into the horizontal slot permit the reversal of the window shade bracket without removing the latter from the attaching screws. The extension .1 is preferably located at an intermediate point between the center and one end of the horizontal adjusting slot and by reversing the window shade bracket the longer portion of the adjusting slot 8 may be arranged either at the inner or outer side of the bracke The horizontal slot 8 is preferably of a length suiiicient to afford an adjustment of one and one half inches without reversing it and by reversing the bracket an adjustment of approximately three inches is obtained, a pair of window shade brackets affording an adjustment of substantially six inches. By this construction, a pair of relatively small compact window shade brackets is adapted to afford a wide range of adjustment. The reversal of the brackets arranges the projecting extension 11. either at the top or the bottom of the body portion of the base plate, which substantially oblong and ex tends in a horizontal direction, but the configuration of the bracket may, of course, be varied.

The supporting arm 2 projects from one side of the extension 11 and is offset by the extension from the horizontal plane of the adjusting slot 8, so that the window shade will not cover the adjusting slot and pre vent access to the screws in either position of the window shade bracket. This is essential, as it would be impossible to adjust the bracket with the longer portion of the longitudinal slot 8 at the inner side if the slot 8 were in the same horizontal plane as the supporting arm. Also by arranging the supporting arm at an intermediate point between the center of the bracket and one end, the bracket may be reversed to throw the vertical slot to either side of a central position and will thereby afiord a complete adjustment of the supporting arm, and the latter may be adjusted to a central position with respect to the spaced fastening screws. Also the brackets may be secured to the window frame with the supporting arms projecting between the sides of the window frame when it is desired to support a window shade in such position.

In Fig. 5 of the drawing is illustrated a bracket 12 having an extension 13 at one end carrying a projecting supportin arm i l and provided with an entranceslbt 15. The supporting arm is offset from the hori zontal plane of the horizontal adjusting slot 16 and the screws will be exposed when the bracket is arranged with the extension 13 either at the top or bottom. While it is preferable to provide the entrance slot in the extension, which ofisets the supporting arm from the plane of the horizontal adjusting slot, yet the same result with respect to the adjustment and reversal may be obtained by providing an entrance slot at any other convenient point along the horizontal adjusting slot. Such a slot would permit the screws to be engaged with and disengaged from the horizontal slot.

l Vl'iat is claimed is 1. A reversible window shade bracket comprising abase plate having a horizontal slot adapted to receive fastening means for adj ustably securing the bracket to a window frame, and a shade roller supporting arm carried by and extending from the base plate beyond the center thereof, said supporting arm being also located beyond the horizontal plane of the adjusting slot, said window shade bracket being reversible to arrange the supporting arm either above or below the horizontal'slot and at either side of the center of the bracket, and the said horizontal slot being exposed throughout its entire length in each adjustment of the window shade bracket whereby ready access is had to the said fastening means.

2. A reversible window shade bracket comprising a base plate having a horizontal adjusting slot to receive fastening devices for securing the bracket to a window frame, and a window shade supporting bracket arm projecting from and carried by the base plate and located beyond the horizontal plane of the adjusting slot to expose the fastening devices when the window shade bracket is reversed to arrange the said bracket either above or below the horizontal adjusting slot, said base plate being also provided with a substantially vertical entrance slot extending from the horizontal adjusting slot and adapted to permit the fastening devices to be passed into it for reversing or detaching the window shade bracket.

3. A window shade bracket comprising a base plate provided with a horizontal adjusting slot adapted to receive the spaced fastening devices and having a substantially vertical entrance slot extending from the horizontal slot at a point intermediate of the ends thereof, said entrance slot being of a width greater than the adjusting slot and of a size to permit the heads of the fastening devices to pass through it, and a window shade supporting arm extending from and carried by the base plate.

4. A window shade bracket comprising a base plate provided with a horizontal adjusting slot and having an extension and provided therein with a substantially vert'- cal entrance slot communicating with the adjusting slot and having a greater width than the adjusting slot to permit the base plate to be passed over the heads of the fastening devices for securing the bracket to a Window frame and also for permitting In testimony whereof we affix our signatheirbrackgt go be reveised Without removing tures in presence of two Witnesses.

it om t e astening evices, and a Window shade supporting arm projecting from the said extension and offset by the same from the plane of the adjusting slot to expose Witnesses: 1 the latter and the said fastening devices JOHN R. RAY, when the bracket is in either position. HENRY E. COOPER.

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